Combined store-goods lifter and ladder.



No. 649,965. Patented 'May 22, l900.- 0. L. TAY-LOB.l

COMBINED STORE- GOUDSLIFTEB-AND LADDER. (Application led Feb. 1B, 1899.) (No Model.)- 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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No. 649,965. I Patented May 22, |900.

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COMBINED STORE GOUDS LIFTER AND LADDER.

(Application led ZFe'l 18,1899.)-

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UNITEDA STATES PNrErrrfu OFFICE.

ORLANDO L. TAYLOR, or wrNONA, MINNESOTA.

COMBINED'STORE-GOODS LIFTER AND LADDER.

SPECIFICATION forming pat Of Letters Patent NO. 64.95965, dated May 22, 1900. Application filed February 18, 1899. Serial No. 706, 59. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, ORLANDO L. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Winona, in the county of Winona and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Store- Goods Lifter and Ladder; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, and t0 the letters and gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view showing the invention as in application. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal section of same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the wire shelves. Fig. Il is a perspective detail view of carriage without shelves. This invention is designed to provide means of improved character in the nature of a combined movable ladder and elevator for use in stores for the purpose of elevating and storing goods; and the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts,

all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the numeral l designates a ladder or frame, the lower ends of whose side rails are provided with grooved sheaves or rollers 2, journaled in brackets 2, which engage and travel on a rail 3, secured to the floor of the building adjacent and parallel to the wall on which are the shelves Z, to which the goods are to be raised and in which they are to be stored.

4 is a horizontal guide-rail'which is secured to the shelving, preferably at points some distance below the top thereof, and which is slidingly engaged by hooks 5 or other suitable bearing devices on the side rails of the ladd e1,l or frame.

6 designates a car or carriage arranged to reciprocate on the ladder-frame. It consists of elongated parallel side bars, to which are secured cross-pieces 7. These side bars are arranged to hug the inner faces of the side rails of the ladder, the cross-pieces thereof lapping over the same and bearing at their end portions upon said side rails, transverse vibration of the carriage being thereby prevented. Carried by these cross-pieces are suitable detachable shelves, which may be of different construction, according to the nature of the goods which `they are to carry. The construction illustrated is more especially designed for. use in handling rolls of wall-paper, and the shelves are each co'nstructed from a metal rod bent to form the parallel lateral arms 8, whose free end portions terminate in upwardly-extending downwardly-directed angular hooks 9, which are designed to engage over one of the crosspieces 7 in the manner shown. At its outer portion each lateral arm of the shelf is bent upwardly at right angles, as at 10, and these upwardly-extending arms are connected by the transverse portion 1l. The arms 10 and transverse portion 11 form guards to retain on the shelf the rolls of paper or other goods which are laid transversely on the lateral arms 8. Secured to the upper end portion of each side bar of the carriage is a forwardlyprojecting triangular bracket l2, and connected to the upper forward corner portion of each bracket is a rope 13, which extends upwardly to the top portion of the ladder,

2O is a friction-brake band on the drum 13.

Connected-to said band is `a rope 2l, which passes upwardly and over one of the rungs of the ladder and thence down to a hand-lever 22, to which it is connected. Said lever is pivoted at one end to the rear side of one of the side rails of the ladder.

The operation of the device is obvious. It will be noted that by reason of the manner in which the operating-ropes 13 are connected to the carriage-that is to say, at points some distance in front of and above thecarriage proper-the tendency is to hold the carriage at to its guides on the ladder or frame no matter at what point the carriage is on said frame. It will be observed that IOO l 2 Y A 649,965

when the shelves of the carriage are loaded the load will operate to keep the lower end l of the carriage to the rails,while the inward tion of the brake device above described.

The shelves can be quickly removed from the carriage when it 'is'not desired vto use them, or the entire carriage may be removed from theladder,` which. can then be used as an ordinary ladder.

ed on the same guide-rods.

Instead of a ladder a simple frame without rungs may be used to support and guide the carriage Other ladders such asV are commonly used in stores may be mount- -2. The combinationwith a ladder or frame, 4o

of La carriage arranged to travel thereon and having angular cross bars, of a shelf or Ashelves having angular hooks which detachably engage said angular cross-bars to support said shelves, and means for operating said'carriage, substantially as specified.

3. In store furniture of the class described, the combination with the4 car or carriage having the cross-bars, of detachable shelves consisting each of a rod bent to form parallel lateral arms and angular hooks at the inner 1enqdspof said arms for engagement 'with one lof said'eross-bars, and a transverse portion connected to the outer ends of said arms by upwardly bent portions, substantially as specified. l Y

. 4. In store furniture of the class described, the combination With au inclined ladder or frame, of a carriage arranged to travel thereon, and having 'side bars which bear against the inner sides of the side rails of the frame l*Having thusdescribed my invention, what Telainias new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i'si l. In store furniture of the class described, thecombination with an inclined frame or ladder, 'of a carriage arranged to travel on saidframe or ladder, and having side bars which bear against the inner sides of the side rails ofthe frame or ladder and cross-bars whose end portions bear upon the outer edges of fsaidside rails, a shelf or shelves secured to said carriage, the forwardly-projecting arms secured to the upper end of the carriage,the ropes or cables connected to the outer extremities of said arms, the bearingpulleys for said ropes or cables, and winding or ladder, and angular cross-bars whose end portions bear upon the outer edges of said side rails; a shelf orshelves having angular hookswhich detachably engage said angular cross-bars to su pport said shelves; the forwardly-'projecting arms secured to the upper portion of said carriage; theropes or cables Vconnectedto the outer portions of said arms; Y

-the bearing-pulleysfor said ropes or cables; and winding devices therefor, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORLANDO L. TAYLOR.`

Y Witnesses:

' HELMER I-I. LEF.,

D. E. VANCE. 

